Chapter 31 Arrival at the Long Chain Island (Please recommend and collect)
After landing from the sky island, the two ships sailed side by side on the vast ocean.
Luffy stood on his ship and shouted to the Merry driven by El not far away: "Hey, El! How long will it take us to reach the Seven Water City you mentioned?"
The sound traveled through the wind and waves and reached Al's ears.
He shook his head. "We should get some Den Den Mushi. It's really inconvenient to communicate by shouting."
El complained and shouted to Luffy, "There are only two islands left to reach the Seven Water Capitals."
Upon hearing the news, Luffy immediately jumped up excitedly.
Robin, who was reading on the deck, put down the book in his hand and said softly: "Captain, I know how to breed Den Den Mushi. We can buy some larvae and I will take care of them."
"That would be great." Then he looked at Kaya, who was sitting next to Robin, concentrating on her medical research.
"If possible, Robin, you can take Kaya with you. She is immersed in those medical skills all day long, and it would be good for her to raise some small creatures occasionally to relax."
Just as everyone was having a relaxed and happy conversation, the originally calm sea surface suddenly became restless.
Wave after wave of huge waves came from all directions, as if the entire ocean was breathing the breath of anger.
"Al, look over there! There looks like something in the water."
Weiwei was keenly aware of the abnormality and pointed to the churning sea water not far away.
El immediately used his Observation Haki and quickly spotted the target.
A few naughty sea monkeys were playing around, causing huge waves.
"Nami, whether or not we can have an extra meal tonight depends entirely on your performance!" El pointed out the exact location of the troublemakers to Nami.
Nami responded confidently: "Don't worry, I won't let you down."
With that, she quickly adjusted her stance and unleashed her electric shock abilities.
However, due to the huge waves constantly hitting the hull and the swaying of the ship itself, Nami's first few attempts failed to hit the target accurately.
After several attempts, Nami increased the range of her lightning attack, and several bolts of lightning streaked across the sky at the same time.
One of the sea monkeys was instantly knocked down by the powerful electric current and floated on the water with its belly facing up.
Seeing this, the rest of the companions fled in panic, and in a flash, the sea returned to its former tranquility.
Seeing this, Luffy stretched out his rubber arm and pulled the electrocuted sea monkey onto the boat.
Soon after, Sanji finished cutting the fish and Luffy delivered the fresh ingredients to the Merry.
"What a convenient ability." Nojigo praised with a smile, then returned to the kitchen with the fresh ingredients and began to prepare tonight's delicious meal.
After dinner, night fell and the stars twinkled faintly in the sky.
Nami found El with a hint of confusion, "Captain, you mentioned before that the reason why Enel can use the Thunder Fruit to attack anywhere on Sky Island is because of his observation Haki that covers the entire Sky Island. Is that right?"
Al nodded and explained patiently: "Yes, people with Observation Haki can not only keenly perceive their surroundings, but also accurately predict the opponent's movements. This gives them a great advantage in battle."
"I see." After hearing what El said, Nami's fighting spirit was rekindled in her eyes.
"Paper painting, one of the six styles of the navy, can probably be considered the entry-level physical technique of observation Haki. He can sense the changes in airflow and avoid attacks."
After hearing El's explanation, Nami gathered her female members and began to practice the Six Styles of the Navy.
Al carefully guided them from the side, demonstrating various physical techniques one by one and correcting their mistakes.
When they started sparring with each other, Al watched them while thinking about how to further improve his own strength.
The next island might encounter Qingzhi, and he needs to come up with a task reward that can quickly enhance his strength.
The next morning, after breakfast, Nojigo stood on the observation deck on the mast and helped Nami observe the surrounding environment.
Suddenly, her sight was attracted by a small dot vaguely visible in the distant fog. "Nami, look over there! There seems to be an island!" she shouted excitedly.
Hearing her sister's voice, Nami quickly climbed up to the observation deck and looked in the direction of Nojigo's finger.
Checking the navigation compass in her hand, she confirmed that it was the island they were about to arrive at.
Nami then used her ability to create the sound of thunder and lightning on Luffy's ship.
Then, she waved the flag in her hand and used flag language to convey the message to Usopp to follow her.
After receiving the information, Usopp immediately adjusted the course and followed the Merry towards the unknown island.
As the ship slowly approached the shore, the unique scenery of the Long Chain Island came into view.
There was a strange long creature living on the island. When Luffy saw it, he left Sanji and Zoro to guard the boat, and he couldn't wait to jump off the boat with Usopp and Chopper to explore this magical place.
Al arranged for the female members to go to the island together to enjoy the scenery, while he himself chose to stay on the boat.
After all, apart from the old man who refused to leave his stilts due to his fear of heights, there was no one else on the island.
As for the arrival of Qingzhi, there is still some time, so there is no need to rush.
The sea breeze was blowing gently, and El brought out a few bottles of fine wine. He invited Zoro and Sanji to sit on the shore and taste the delicacies carefully prepared by Sanji.
Just as the three were immersed in delicious food and chatting, a boat with a unique shape, like a fox's tail, slowly approached.
The corners of Al's mouth rose slightly, and he turned to his friends and said, "Your game is here!"
Zoro was enjoying his drink, and when he heard this, he asked in confusion: "Game? What game?"
Al pointed to the ship of the Foxy Pirates approaching in the distance and explained, "Those are the guys on that ship. They are a special group of pirates who like to challenge others to various competitions."
"Going out to sea just to play games and compete? What's the point of being a pirate like this?" Zoro shook his head with some disdain.
Sanji took a puff of his cigarette, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "Well, let's see what these guys are capable of."
Al smiled faintly, drank the wine in his glass, and did not reveal too much information about Foxy.
Although the Slowness Fruit has a powerful control ability that can significantly slow down the opponent.
But Al believes that neither the existing crew nor new members who may join in the future seem to have much use for this capability.
In his opinion, finding suitable devil fruits for his partners is an extremely important thing, and natural or mythical beast fruits are undoubtedly the best choices.
However, these two types of fruits are too rare, so he had only considered fruits with extreme defensive capabilities such as the barrier fruit and the slippery fruit.
At this time, the fox ship in the distance had docked at the shore, and several pirates wearing fox eye patches walked down from the ship.
Chapter 32 Foxy's Competition (Please recommend and collect)
The leader was Foxy. His eyes swept over the three people sitting and drinking on the shore, and finally stopped on Sanji who was busy cooking food.
"Chef over there," Foxy said with a hint of provocation in his voice, "where is your captain?"
Sanji didn't stop what he was doing, but just glanced at Foxy out of the corner of his eye, with a hint of impatience in his tone: "He's on the island, do you have anything to do with him?"
Foxy narrowed his eyes and looked back and forth between El, Zoro and Sanji. After a moment, he smiled slightly, turned around and led his men away from the shore and walked towards the island.
It wasn't until Foxy and his group disappeared from sight that Al thought of a situation.
He turned to Zoro and asked, "Zoro, what is your bounty now?"
Zoro scratched his head, thought for a moment and replied, "Bounty? I haven't seen my bounty, so I don't know."
At this time, Sanji brought a plate of steaming food to the table and said, "Luffy should be the only one on our ship who has a bounty of 30 million."
"I see." Al nodded and understood.
Because he had resolved the issues of Arlong and Alabasta in advance, the Straw Hat Pirates were not put on the bounty list, so Foxy did not know them.
That’s why Foxy wasn’t very interested in them and just left.
After a long time, Luffy and his group followed Foxy back to the shore.
Usopp, however, walked towards Sanji and Zoro with an angry look on his face and began to complain: "Do you know? Luffy actually accepted the Davy Back Fight challenge from the Foxy Pirates!"
Sanji stopped what he was doing and frowned slightly, "I've heard of this game," he murmured, "It's a competition between pirates to compete for crew members. If you win, you can get new crew members, and if you lose, you will suffer heavy losses."
Zoro seemed unconcerned, still drinking leisurely, his eyes swept across Usopp's nervous expression, and said lightly: "Then as long as we don't lose, it's fine, right?"
"But, I heard from them that they have maintained an undefeated record of more than 900 games." Usopp explained, his tone full of worry.
Foxy returned to the beach and learned that Al was also a captain, so he went up to him and asked, "Do you want to join the Straw Hats in our Davy Back Fight competition?"
"I'm not interested in your competition, stay away from me." Just as he finished speaking, Al shot two flying finger guns at Foxy's hands, making a crisp sound of breaking bones.
Intimidated by Al's powerful strength, Foxy stopped the crew members who were preparing to fight, retreated back to the ship in embarrassment, and bandaged his injured hand.
This action of El not only shocked Foxy, but also eliminated the potential threat for Luffy and others.
With the ability of the Slowness Fruit, if Luffy hadn't had the halo of the protagonist, the Straw Hat Pirates would have almost disbanded because of this challenge.
El said to Usopp who was still nervous: "I have disabled his hand. Without his ability, you don't have to worry."
Hearing what El said, Usopp was overjoyed, and his tense heartstrings finally relaxed a little.
However, he still asked curiously: "Al, what is his ability? He can maintain a winning streak of more than 900 games."
"Nothing special." Aldi replied, "His ability is to make the opponent unable to move. In this case, you can't win."
"I see." Sanji finished the cigarette in his hand, threw the butt on the ground and stomped it out.
When the crew of the Foxy Pirates heard their captain announce that the Straw Hat Pirates would participate in the competition, they immediately got busy.
The captain of the banquet team, Itomimis, began to direct the crew to build the stage and competition venue on the beach.
Nami and her group ended their tour and returned to the ship.
Al bought a lot of snacks around the venue and took the members to sit on the boat to watch the game that was about to begin.
As cheerleader Polchi announced the competition rules, the competition officially began.
The first game is a canoe race around the island, featuring Chopper and Usopp.
Their task was to row the boat around the island and return to the starting point.
As soon as the game started, members of the Foxy Pirates in the audience kept attacking them with muskets to disrupt them.
Fortunately, Usopp used the Wind Shell from Sky Island to transform an ordinary kayak into a Viper, allowing him to move quickly on the sea.
"Is this okay? There are actually spectators who directly attack the contestants." Nami asked curiously.
"This is the rule of the game, otherwise they wouldn't have won so many times in a row." Al explained on the side
With the crushing of Sky Island's high-tech and under the guidance of Usopp, they quickly reached the finish line and won.
Originally in this game, they were affected by Foxy's slow light before the finish line and lost the game, resulting in Chopper being taken away.
After winning, Luffy got back the horse 'Sherry' that was taken away by Foxy.
This loyal horse has been guarding the uncle on stilts for ten years.
Luffy accepted the challenge of Davy Back Fight just to get the horse back.
The second game is a fighting ball match, with Sanji and Zoro appearing.
According to the rules of the game, Sanji played the ball man, while Zoro left all his weapons behind at the request of the referee.
As the game began, the quarrels and disharmony between the two soon became apparent, and they kept blaming each other on the court and fell into trouble.
At the same time, their opponents kept taking out weapons prohibited by the rules of the game to attack, but the referee turned a blind eye and clearly favored the Foxy Pirates.
This unfair treatment made Sanji furious, and he eventually rushed out of the field and beat the referee severely.
This action resulted in the Straw Hat Pirates being given a red card and losing the game.
History always repeats itself surprisingly. After Sanji and Zoro lost the fighting ball game, Chopper was kidnapped by the Foxy Pirates.
Without Nami's coordination, Sanji and Zoro became emotionally drained from losing the game and started fighting each other.
At this moment, Luffy stood up and said firmly: "Don't worry, I will win the game and get our companion Chopper back."
Just as Luffy said, in the third round of the captain duel, Foxy, who was unable to use his slowing ability due to a finger injury, was no match for Luffy at all.
Luffy launched a fierce attack using the power of the Rubber Fruit.
Just a few minutes later, Foxy was defeated by Luffy's full-strength attack and fell to the beach.
Afterwards, Chopper returned to the Straw Hat Pirates.
Although Foxy was very unwilling to lose the game, under the watchful gaze of El, the Foxy Pirates still obediently drove the ship away from Long Chain Island.
Watching the other ship gradually go away, Al turned around and said to them with a smile: "We have finished watching the entertainment program, so now we have to get down to business."
After saying that, Al led everyone off the boat and followed Luffy to the residence of the uncle on stilts.
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